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Seneca in Exile

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a (very rich) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. He was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy (mostly with teachers from the short-lived School of the Sextii, which combined Stoicism with